When people start learning Python, they often will come across a package they
want to try and it will usually start with "just pip install it!" The problem
with that advice
Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it:
I learned sometime ago that
Someone emailed the steering council recently to ask what it was like to be on
it, presumably because nominations will be opening next month
[https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@python.org/
[Updated 2019-11-17]
On September 10, 2019 while I was in London, UK at the Python core dev sprints,
I got a message from a user named "spacedrop" [https://keybase.io/spacedrop]
A co-worker of mine attended a technical talk about how Go's module mirror
[https://proxy.golang.org/] works and he asked me whether there was something
there that Python should do.
